Log splitter

[4570Man]

It is more or less impossible for most folk to do on a stool unless they vastly outweigh the rounds they're cutting and they have a really good back. Most average folk need their legs under them to do much with anything that weighs the same (or more) than their body weight.

With that aside you still have to handle the rounds one more time. After the pieces drop off my 4 way for the final time I’m done until the next step. The vertical splitter requires tossing the piece out of the way. I’d considered getting a treadmill or some other form of conveyer belt to carry the pieces away but some yahoo stole my vertical splitter.

 

[Doofy]

I mount my electric splitter right on my 4 wheeler trailer, split the wood right in to the trailer and then to the wood racks to stack. No big strains.

 

[goeduck]

My best buddy did that sitting on a round but he can dead lift 700 lbs. and bench press 550 lbs. He's a Navy Seal and one **** of a man. He's also half my age but I had to use the tractor to push rounds close enough for him to reach.
He got transferred to the East Coast last June and it about broke my heart.

Hey, no man love on TBN. :thumbdown:

 

[dasranger]

It is more or less impossible for most folk to do on a stool unless they vastly outweigh the rounds they're cutting and they have a really good back. Most average folk need their legs under them to do much with anything that weighs the same (or more) than their body weight.

I’ve been splitting wood for over 30 years. The last ten have with a log splitter, horizontally. Last fall, I saw a few people splitting wood vertically using a stool. I borrowed my cousin’s Cub Cadet to see if it made a difference. Game changer. I filled that trailer twice and didn’t feel warn out afterwards. In fact, I felt as if I hadn’t split any wood at all. I “push” and “roll” the rounds close to the stool so I can grab five or six without getting up. I was surprised how little effort it took to toss the finished logs onto the trailer from a sitting position. The following week I split another log pile with the same positive results. I returned the Cub splitter to my cousin, sold my horizontal only splitter, and going to pickup a (probably) Countyline from TSC.

 

[Diggin It]

OK, you need to fill us in on that nifty wooden tool shelf doo-dad between the tractor and the hitch.

 

[dasranger]

OK, you need to fill us in on that nifty wooden tool shelf doo-dad between the tractor and the hitch.

No problem. I don’t have my build pics handy but it’s basically a “Carry All” steel platform with a 2 inch receiver bought on Amazon. Many design ideas out there. My priorities were a large 2x12 platform to work on with a shelf underneath for all the ancillaries.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You guys are man-handling your wood too much! lol lol

I cut my firewood directly into a wagon,

Then "slide" or roll the rounds right onto the splitters beam, even my wife can do it, (and yes I helped her with the biggest ones)

The splitter pushes the wood through the 4-way and the splits go off the end of the beam, into a pile or into a box or ? . Anything that needs re-split, you just roll it backwards off the 4-way, right back onto the beam.

SR

 

[turnkey4099]

It is more or less impossible for most folk to do on a stool unless they vastly outweigh the rounds they're cutting and they have a really good back. Most average folk need their legs under them to do much with anything that weighs the same (or more) than their body weight.

Right on!!

 

[turnkey4099]

I try to get big chunks for the fireplace out of my 22 ton unit but then I always have a difficult time starting the fires in the morning. An acquaintance and I were talking splitters and he said he had am electric one he would sell to me for $100 so I took it, even though I told myself I would never have one of this dinky little things. I have it sitting on a bench in my shop and whenever I go out there I split a couple wedges and bring them to the house for starting the fires. It works great for my 2x2s. Love little splitters.

For bending over and lifting to the splitter, forget that. Just roll them on a pallet and lift everything with the tractor plus it works for a table once the first two pieces open up a corner. View attachment 583150

I know two different people with those splitters. They will split an amazingly large piece. I have also heard of people having htem in the house by the stove.

 

[Doofy]

When you get older, it's kind of nice to be in a warm garage while busting some wood. Having the little splitter up on a solid work bench helps too.